OPEN THREAD: Have your usual wild Saturday night.

YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK:

THE LORD MOVES IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS:

BUT OF COURSE:

UPDATE:

UP IN SMOKE: Palisades Fire Incinerates Future Career of Mayor Karen Bass, Gavin Newsom’s Presidential Aspirations.

There are many other significant problems created by Bass, Newsom, as well as other progressive politicians in this state. However, blog space is short.

In conclusion: Bass’ future in politics and Newsom’s presidential aspirations can be added to the list of items destroyed in the Palisades fire.

California literally turned into a red state overnight.

The political careers of Bass and Newsom are quite possibly finished as a result of their combination of incompetence and obsession with leftist eco-shibboleths and DEI (and likely, particularly in Newsom’s case, a huge dose of “Magical Sorkinism” as well.) But I’d hold off on declaring California a red state just yet. This 2015 City Journal piece by VDH titled “The Scorching of California” is a reminder that wealthy Californians seem to have little desire to fix their state’s myriad woes.

HIGH-PAID CALIFORNIA INCOMPETENCE: While the Santa Ana Winds-driven flames continue to spread the flames across Los Angeles city and county, Open the Books exposes the high salaries taxpayers fund for so much official incompetence. Check out my latest PJMedia column.

SHOCKER:

I DIDN’T HAVE “WINKLEVOSS BROTHER AS MORAL LEADER” ON MY CARD FOR 2025, BUT HERE YOU ARE:

BBC LISTS FIVE CAUSES OF THE CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES. #1 is “Rapid Fuel Growth.” They don’t get to “climate change” until #5, and even then they say “it is too early to establish whether or how much climate change contributed to these fires.”

Well, it certainly didn’t cause the gross institutional and personal incompetence that we saw everywhere.